{"id":7906,"date":"2025-01-31T11:44:00","date_gmt":"2025-01-31T16:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/?p=7906"},"modified":"2025-01-31T12:27:49","modified_gmt":"2025-01-31T17:27:49","slug":"rfk-jr-kept-asking-to-see-the-science-that-vaccines-were-safe-after-he-saw-it-he-dismissed-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/news\/rfk-jr-kept-asking-to-see-the-science-that-vaccines-were-safe-after-he-saw-it-he-dismissed-it\/","title":{"rendered":"RFK Jr. kept asking to see the science that vaccines were safe. After he saw it, he dismissed it"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON (AP) \u2014 The man who hopes to be President Donald Trump\u2019s health secretary repeatedly asked to see \u201cdata\u201d or \u201cscience\u201d showing vaccines are safe \u2013 but when an influential Republican senator showed him evidence, he dismissed it.<\/p>\n<p>Robert F. Kennedy Jr. spent two days this week insisting to senators that he\u2019s not anti-vaccine. He said that he instead supports vaccinations and will follow the science in overseeing the $1.7&nbsp;trillion Department of Health and Human Services, which, among other duties, oversees vaccine research, approval and recommendations.<\/p>\n<p>But Kennedy repeatedly refused to acknowledge scientific consensus that childhood vaccines don\u2019t cause autism and that COVID-19 vaccines saved millions of lives, and he falsely asserted the government has no good vaccine safety monitoring. While appearing to ignore mainstream science, he cited flawed or tangential research to make his points, such as suggesting Black people may need different vaccines than whites.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON (AP) \u2014 The man who hopes to be President Donald Trump\u2019s health secretary repeatedly asked to see \u201cdata\u201d or \u201cscience\u201d showing vaccines are safe \u2013 but when an influential Republican senator showed him evidence, he dismissed it.<\/p>\n<p>Robert F. Kennedy Jr. spent two days this week insisting to senators that he\u2019s not anti-vaccine. He said that he instead supports vaccinations and will follow the science in overseeing the $1.7&nbsp;trillion Department of Health and Human Services, which, among other duties, oversees vaccine research, approval and recommendations.<\/p>\n<p>But Kennedy repeatedly refused to acknowledge scientific consensus that childhood vaccines don\u2019t cause autism and that COVID-19 vaccines saved millions of lives, and he falsely asserted the government has no good vaccine safety monitoring. While appearing to ignore mainstream science, he cited flawed or tangential research to make his points, such as suggesting Black people may need different vaccines than whites.<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/news\/rfk-jr-kept-asking-to-see-the-science-that-vaccines-were-safe-after-he-saw-it-he-dismissed-it\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">RFK Jr. kept asking to see the science that vaccines were safe. After he saw it, he dismissed it<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[375,81,525,18,35,276,571,14,130,1252,51,15],"class_list":["post-7906","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-anti-vaccine-movement","tag-anti-vaxxers","tag-covid-denial","tag-covid-19","tag-disinformation","tag-misinformation","tag-robert-f-kennedy-jr","tag-sars-cov-2","tag-science-denial","tag-trump-regime","tag-united-states","tag-vaccines","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7906","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7906"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7906\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7908,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7906\/revisions\/7908"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7906"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7906"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7906"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}